Love Speaks All Languages
...Love Speaks All Languages
‘Je t’aime’ he whispered with passion
By the Seine with the moon bright above
It sounded so very romantic
French, they say, is the language of love
‘Ti amo’ decla...
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Categories:
fraulein, love,
Form: Rhyme
Foreign Exchange
...Monsieur, life is a blur
wept the fraulein
Madame, monsieur replied
'Tis better than a lie...
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Categories:
fraulein, cry, language, life, perspective,
Form: Light Verse
Gold Digger
...A wealthy old man in his fifties,
Loved a young girl he thought was just nifty.
His friends didn't like her.
They called her a piker.
But the old man said she was just spiffy.
He wished to mar...
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Categories:
fraulein, love hurts,
Form: Limerick
Living a Dream
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Two silhouettes
toe-tapping on an enchanted moonbeam
A nighttime romantic dalliance
Two starry-eyed lovers,
so much in love
So living a dream
Their love has this kind of feel ---
a touch ...
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Categories:
fraulein, love, relationship, romance, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Former Fraulein In France
...Outside the city, tasty pomegranates grow,
the Wakefields look forward to delayed honeymoon.
British coffee merchant, James was raised in Bordeaux.
Each day, they sample wines after lunch, after n...
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Categories:
fraulein, 11th grade, adventure, husband,
Form: Alexandrine
Fraulein Wexler and Lady Wakefield
...dramatic verse
Instead of drinking coffee in the cafés of Berlin,
two years have passed; we find our Fraulein has moved once again -
Fraulein Wexler is now employed at London’s Coffee Sense.
Wh...
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Categories:
fraulein, dad, daughter, london, wedding,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Fraulein Wexler
...free verse
German workaholic,
jilted as a young bride
never knew a lover's grace
denying a broken heart
she studied marketing
Munich melodramatic,
content within her world of work
no ro...
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Categories:
fraulein, business, change, class, writing,
Form: Free verse
Decisions of Love
...Germany post World War II,
torn, impoverished.
Ruled by Marshal Law,
imposed by the victorious.
Occupational forces walk
the rubble streets.
Civilians cower
in fear,
in hunger,
uncertainty.
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Categories:
fraulein, introspection, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Valentines Wishes On Dresden
...Valentines Wishes On Dresden
Awakened before sleep had settled in
she peered out to the night of Dresden's way
and though her hero had no war to win
she blew a kiss to him, as if to say
"mein ...
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Categories:
fraulein, anger, angst, betrayal, death,
Form: Sonnet
Limerick: Once a Firebrand Fraulein From the Black Forest
...Limerick : Once a Firebrand Fräulein from the Black Forest
Once a Firebrand Fräulein from the Black Forest
In winter went out to cut wood sans vest
In fact sans Lederhose
Nor even horse fire hose
S...
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Categories:
fraulein, humor,
Form: Limerick
Ricky the Traveling Man
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Ricky, you may have been around the world.
You have seen many different flags unfurled.
Is it true you found a girl wherever you went?
I would say your time was very well spent.
You knew a ...
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Categories:
fraulein, dedication, music, time, ,
Form: Rhyme
Viva La Elvis - Abridged Version
...VIVA LA ELVIS
In Tupelo Mississippi, twin baby boys were born,
To Gladys and Vernon Presley, but sadly one passed on.
They named him Jesse Garon, their hearts so full of pain,
And then came Elv...
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Categories:
fraulein, dedicationheart, lost, day, heart,
Form: Ode
An Earthy Choice
...Cara,an Irish lass
Charlotte,the French belle
Vive la difference !
But how to tell!
Desire,a Dutch gal
Nichola ,ein deutsch fraulein
Vive la difference !
Both are a fine dine.
Edward is a...
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Categories:
fraulein, food
Form: Light Verse